Gender and Pentecostal Revivalism [electronic resource] : Making a Female Ministry in the Early Twentieth Century /
Payne, Leah.author.
This innovative volume provides an interdisciplinary, theoretically innovative answer to an enduring question for Pentecostal/charismatic Christianities: how do women lead churches? This study fills this lacuna by examining the leadership and legacy of two architects of the Pentecostal movement - Maria Woodworth-Etter and Aimee Semple McPherson.
Description based upon print version of record.
Cover; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Figures and Tables; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 "Truly Manly": The Ideal American Minister; 2 "Walking Bibles": Narrating Female Pentecostal Ministry; 3 "Pants Don't Make Preachers": The Image of a Female Pentecostal Minister; 4 "A Glorious Symbol": Building a Female Pentecostal Worship Space; 5 "Thunder" and "Sweetness": Authority and Gender in Pentecostal Performance; 6 "A Regular Jezebel": Female Ministry, Pentecostal Ministry on Trial; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index
Includes bibliographical references and index.
This innovative volume provides an interdisciplinary, theoretically innovative answer to an enduring question for Pentecostal/charismatic Christianities: how do women lead churches? This study fills this lacuna by examining the leadership and legacy of two architects of the Pentecostal movement - Maria Woodworth-Etter and Aimee Semple McPherson.
McPherson, Aimee Semple, 1890-1944.
Woodworth-Etter, Maria Beulah, 1844-1924.
Religion and sociology.
Gender identity—Religious aspects.
Religion—History.
Religion.
Christianity.
Evangelicalism.
Sociology of Religion.
Religion and Gender.
History of Religion.
Religious Studies, general.
Christianity.
Evangelicalism and Pentecostalism.